Author: Hunanian Jack

Today’s Zaman

03 October 2009, Saturday

Gül points to stronger democracy for resolution of problems

President Gül commented on recent developments in Turkey and
the world during his flight to Azerbaijan on Friday. Today’s Zaman
columnist Abdülhamit Bilici was among the reporters who
accompanied the president.
President Gül commented on recent developments in Turkey and
the world during his flight to Azerbaijan on Friday. Today’s Zaman
columnist Abdülhamit Bilici was among the reporters who
accompanied the president.
President Abdullah Gül has said the improvement of Turkey’s
democratic standards will solve all of the country’s current problems.
`A higher level of democracy is the solution to all problems. Without
the need to define them as problems of religion or ethnicity, our
problems will be solved if we raise our democratic standards. We can
settle any problems of Kurdish, Alevi and religious citizens through
democracy without being obliged to name those problems,’ the president
told reporters on Friday during his flight to Azerbaijan to attend the
ninth meeting of the Turkic-speaking Countries Cooperation Council.

Gül referred to democracy and the rule of law as the two most
important values of the contemporary world.

The president also clarified remarks made during a speech he delivered
on Thursday in Parliament in which he called for more respect for
differences in society. `When I say respect for differences, I am not
just pointing to ethnic and sectarian ones. I am also pointing to
political ones,’ he remarked.

Asked about the attendance of military officers during his
parliamentary address, Gül expressed full confidence in the
Turkish military and noted that he states his views freely when he
meets with members of the military.

The president was also asked a question about the recent elections in
Germany. Most observers have said the new German government will lend
less support to Turkey’s bid to join the European Union. `We all know
the EU standards and in which areas we need
make these improvements, then Turkey’s outlook will change, which will
result in a change in the views of France and Germany toward our
country,’ he noted.

The president also expressed hope that his Armenian counterpart will
visit Turkey this month for a World Cup soccer qualifier between
Turkey and Armenia.

`We went to Yerevan without making any conditions. What is important
here is sports and gentlemanliness. It is clear that the status quo in
the Caucasus is of no benefit to anyone,’ Gül stated.

03 October 2009, Saturday
ABDÃ`LHAMIT BILICI NAKHCEVAN

PRESIDENT’S FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR I.T. CONTRIBUTION

Tert.am
30.09.09

Taking place in November of this year will be President of the Republic
of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan’s first annual international competition
for contribution to the field of information technology, announced
Presidential Advsior in Economic Issues Vahram Nersisyan during a
press conference today.

In Nersisyan’s words, the competition’s aim is to highlight, on an
international scale, those individuals who have made a considerable
contribution to IT development.

Synopsis Armenia CEO Rich Goldman added that the competition, partly
financed by Synopsis, was finalized this summer, at the Armenian
president’s request. Goldman announced that the committee has already
chosen the winner, though his or her name will be announced only
during the awarding ceremony.

"Our winner, with his activities, is well-known in the whole world. He
is a gifted individual with many merits."

The winner will receive a special medal decorated with a
golden eagle. Other than the medal, the winner will receive a
silver-and-obsidian statuette. Goldman also announced that numerous
bids to participate in the competition have been received from South
America and Western Europe.

"PATRIOTISM DOESN’T LIE IN THE HATRED TOWARDS TURKS"

30/vazgen-manukyan
05:37 pm | September 30, 2009 | Politics

Today the Public Council expressed its opinion on the Armenian-Turkish
Protocols during a meeting with Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan.

"The Public Council thinks that the Protocols carry no preconditions
and should be signed by the two parliaments" Council Chairman Vazgen
Manukian announced today.

The latter thinks the ratification of the Protocols in their present
form derives from the interests of Armenia. "I think that patriotism
doesn’t lie in the hatred towards Turks but in the love towards your
own people."

Council members, Armenian renowned actor Sos Sargsian and academician
Babken Harutiunian, sounded against the Protocols’ signing.

Only environmentalist Karine Danielian abstained from voting.

NKR PRESIDENT MEETS WITH THE ARMENIAN COMPOSER CONSTANTINE ORBELYAN

ARMENPRESS
Sep 30, 2009

STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS: On September 29 President
of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met famous Armenian
composer, People’s Artist of the USSR Constantine Orbelyan who arrived
in Artsakh on the same day.

Central Information Department of the Office of the President told
Armenpress that Bako Sahakyan rated high the input of the maestro in
the development of culture and expressed hope that the well-known
composer would continue to wage an active and creative way of life
in the future.

The interlocutors discussed issues related to the development of
culture and musical art in Artsakh. NKR minister of culture and youth
affairs Narine Aghabalyan partook at the meeting.

SARGSYAN TO MEET ARAM I IN BEIRUT

News.am
17:00 / 09/28/2009

October 1, RA President Serzh Sargsyan will meet with His Holiness
Aram I, the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia in Beirut within
the framework of his visits to Diaspora communities, the Catholicate
press department reports.

According to the source, on September 26 RA President had a phone
conversation with His Holiness Aram I. "Next week Serzh Sargsyan will
visit Lebanon and meet with His Holiness," the message by Antilias
Catholicate reads.

October 1, RA President will pay a week visit to Armenian communities
in Beirut, Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Rostov-on-Don and others. The
purpose of his visits is discussion of the Armenia-Turkey Protocols
with Diaspora representatives. The Protocols entailed protest actions
and controversy amid Armenian Communities

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: THE PROCESS OF THE NORMALIZATION OF THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS PROMISES TO BEAR FRUIT DESPITE ALL DIFFICULTIES

ArmInfo
2009-09-29 18:04:00

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said at the 64th
session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

He also added that over the past year with the help of our Swiss
mediators and other international partners we have advanced towards
opening one of the last closed borders in Europe and normalization of
our relations with NO preconditions. We wish to be confident that the
necessary political will can eventually leave behind the mentality
of the past, and we hope that the wisdom and courage will prevail
to make the last decisive steps. We have been most encouraged by the
support of the international community, the minister said.

ARMENIAN FM: NK PEACE PROCESS MOVING FORWARD

News.am
10:59 / 09/29/2009

"We consider the goals of disarmament and non-proliferation major
elements of global and regional security systems. We must shoulder
the responsibility and work not only towards non-proliferation
and elimination of nuclear weapons but also towards elimination of
militaristic aspirations of some states. It is totally unacceptable
when the threats to resolve the conflicts through military means
are made on the highest level, and those are left unabated by the
international community," RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated
at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly.

"The NK peace process, which is mediated by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group, is moving forward. The Presidents and the Ministers of
Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet regularly to discuss
the principles of a comprehensive resolution of the conflict. Armenia
is convinced that in order to create an opportunity for progress in
the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict, the parties
should commit to refrain from steps that could hamper dialogue and
the peace process," the Armenian FM stated.

"On the international arena, Azerbaijan consistently misrepresents
the essence of the Nagorno Karabagh problem, like two days ago in this
forum, trying to smother ethnic cleansings and its policy of violence
against the people of Nagorno Karabagh. The international community
recalls the Azerbaijani open aggression, large-scale hostilities
and war against Nagorno Karabagh, also with the help of mercenaries,
closely linked to terrorist organizations," Nalbandian said.

"We believe that there is a serious basis for the settlement of
the Nagorno Karabagh problem, if the provisions contained in the
Declaration signed by the Presidents of the Republic of Armenia,
the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation on 2 November
2008, in Moscow, and also in the Declaration of the Foreign Ministers
of the Co-Chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Grou n adopted by the
Foreign Ministers of all 56 OSCE member states on 5 December 2008,
are implemented. According to these documents, the parties must
commit themselves to the peaceful settlement of the problem through
negotiations, based on &’Madrid Principles’ of the Co-Chairs of the
OSCE Minsk Group," he said.

"The Basic Principles, around which negotiations are held currently,
are anchored on the benchmark codes of the international law as
incorporated in the Charter of this Organization, the Helsinki Final
Act and other relevant international documents. The international
principles of Non-Use or Threat of Use of Force, the Self-Determination
of Peoples and Territorial Integrity are equally viable. Some
have long attempted to downplay the importance of the notion of
self-determination of peoples as a second-rate principle in the
system of international law, and inferior to that of &’territorial
integrity’. I have to disappoint the advocates of double standards:
self-determination is an unconditional clause of the international
law; it is about liberty, freedom of any people to choose its future
and fate, and to defend its collective rights whenever those rights
and that future are jeopardized. If self-determination was inferior
to territorial integrity there would have been only 52 member states
in the UN, instead of 192 present," stated the Armenian FM.

ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO UN DISINFORMS AND PLAYS CAT AND MOUSE

ArmInfo
2009-09-28 12:57:00

ArmInfo. The delegation of Armenia to UN purposefully and impudently
ignores representatives of the national press despite multiple
statements of Armenian foreign minister about the necessity of
the informational work enhancing. As ArmInfo special correspondent,
which covers the debates at UN General Assembly in New York, reported,
numerous attempts to establish cooperation with the Armenian delegation
to UN, headed by the newly appointed special representative Karen
Nazaryan, failed. Nazaryan himself said he is too busy to give an
interview and can meet journalists only after ending of the debates on
30 September, as an employee of the delegation certain Inga said. To
be honest, Nazaryan corrected himself and added he is ready to answer
the questions via the e:mail but again after the 30 September and was
very kind to tell his e:mail address. The ArmInfo correspondent via the
e:mail was forced to forebearingly explain the newly appointed special
representative of Armenia to UN, which perhaps badly understands
the mission of the press and the tasks of the national mass media,
about the necessity of the operative delivery of information, so that
in case of partial propaganda by Azerbaijan one could neutralize it
and ensure informational balance at the informational market.

But obviously special representative did not care about these national
informational tasks, as there was absolute silence as a reply to the
emotional monologue. There was only one answer to all the attempts
to ask event about small details: "We don’t know!". Certain Lilit
from the delegation, allegedly responsible for some relations, did
not even take pains to take a call. The same Lilit gave the wrong
answer about the time when the main opponent of Armenia Azerbaijani
foreign minister is going to make a speech, as she wanted to get rid
of me as soon as possible. But what happened later cannot be at all
compared with this incompetence.

The event happened on 25 September, at the day when Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandyan arrived in New York. Having again phoned
to ‘Inga’, which replied: ‘Delegation of Armenia in UN’, ArmInfo
correspondent asked about Nalbandyan’s meeting with the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs, and ‘Inga’ informed that the minister has already
arrived and absolutely rejected the possibility of his meeting the
co-chairs at the same day. But when it became clear next day ArmInfo
correspondent, indignant because of evident lies, phoned to inform
‘Inga’ about that. The latter confessed and said she does not have a
right to give information and got a rap over the knuckles as she gave
the information about the minister’s arrival. ArmInfo correspondent
thinks such an attitude of the Armenian delegation regarding Armenian
journalists as an obvious derision.

Evidently, this is just at attempt to hide their absolute incompetence
reaching ignorance. There has never been any clearance in the work
of the Armenian delegation to UN, and the same tendency is being
preserved after appointment of the new sorrow-diplomat. Actually,
what a victory in the information war you mean in such conditions
and with such staff, Mr.Foreign Minister?

CSIT 2009 OPENS IN YEREVAN

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
28.09.2009 12:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Seventh International Conference on Computer
Science and Information Technologies, CSIT 2009, kicked off in Yerevan
on September 28.

Opening the conference, Vice President of the RA National Academy
of Sciences Yuri Shukuryan said it will offer new opportunities for
Armenia and will help promotion of fundamental science.

Synopsys Armenia CEO Rich Goldman has given "Global Semiconducting
Industry" lecture.

The event brought together 62 leading IT specialists from the United
States, Russia, Norway, Georgia, Brazil, Poland, Syria, Ukraine,
Germany, Canada and France, leaders of IT companies and students.

The major topics are the following: Algorithms, Automata and Logic,
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorial Analysis, Information
Theory and Coding Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Management
Support Systems, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Parallel
and Distributed Computing, Cluster and Grid Computing, Design and
Testing, Telecommunication and Networking, Information Technologies
and Applications.

The conference also includes a workshop on UNL (Universal Networking
Language), which will include 1-day international symposium to discuss
theoretical and technical issues on the basis of papers and demos,
3-day introductory seminar to UNL for people interested in knowing
the UNL or expecting to start working on it.

CSIT 2009 was initiated by RA Government, RA National Academy of
Sciences (NAS), NAS Institute for Informatics and Automation Issues,
Yerevan Scientific Research Institute for communication facilities,
as well as Synopsys Armenia, Unicomp, Hilink, Virage Logic, Enterprise
Incubator Foundation and Armenian Development Agency.

ERDOGAN: FROM PASSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD TO ACTIVE RELATIONS

9/09/25/neighbour/
15:09 25/09/2009

The Turkish Prime Minister Rejep Tayip Erdogan made a speech in the
64th summit of the UN General Assembly.

The Turkish PM raised various questions in this speech but still the
highlights of it were the relations with the neighbor countries. He
declared that within the recent 7 years Ankara has taken initiative to
solve its problems with the neighbor states.

Turkey keeps in mind the slogan `zero problems with neighbors’ and
follows the path to normalize ties.

Regarding the Armenian matter, Turkish PM said: `The measures made to
normalize ties with neighbor Armenia gives its harvest. It’s the
highest time regulate the relations of Armenia and Azerbaijan and
other issues in Caucasus,’ Erdogan said.